Hello. My name is Pedro Pascal. I play Oberyn Martell, the red viper on Game of Thrones. I was born in Santiago, Chile, and I grew up in the states. I've been in New York for about 20 years, I would say NY is home. I cut my teeth in the theater here, and one of my first jobs out of college was an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer which made my sister and friends very very proud of this day.

I hope it was fun for everybody. This was a lot of fun for me. Keep watching Game of Thrones next week, try not to spoil it for each other, just enjoy it and trust that the show delivers. Thank you all very much. Just, gratitude.

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Absolutely. It would be my pleasure. So far everyone has been really polite and sweet, and it's been a total pleasure, and I mean that. Maybe I don't get out enough, because I don't go out to bars, where I get accosted by drunken fans, it's usually been in the middle of the day going to and from work. People have been so kind, they really really have. It's been really special to be back in New York and working. It's easy to forget that people are seeing me, I mean, it's not like I forget, I know it's happening, but it's always a nice surprise.

Someone asked something people might not know about me, and the funniest GoT actor behind the scenes, but deleted their comment: I was a competitive swimmer when I was a child. I went to the state championships in Texas when I was 11 years old. And then I got into drama class, and I let that go right away. I'm still very comfortable in the water.

Oh my god, so many of them are so funny. The entire cast is very very witty and a fun cast, so this is very hard to choose, but I guess something that people might not expect is that Sophie Turner (Sansa) had me in stitches a lot of the time. I'm not sure if she was trying to be funny but she was still making me laugh.

Thank you VERY much. I think that it was just initially an instinct on my part? I could tell even though I hadn't read the books, I was up to date on the show, when I read the audition sights for the character, and I felt like they were ushering in a very new element with Oberyn Martell, and it seemed like it would be interesting if he sounded different than everyone in King's Landing so that there was a very foreign element. He looks different, he dresses different, and I thought it was important that he sound different. He also behaves differently than the rest of the characters, the way he goes up against some of the most dangerous characters with fearlessness is very unique, so I thought it would be very unique to have his sound fall in line, and be sort of unique from others.

I can't believe you came up with that accent for him without reading. When I first saw you on screen I was convinced it had written FOR you. You really make Oberyn so much more than he would be portrayed by any other actor. I feel that way about a lot of the cast, especially Peter. Just saying to me, you hit the nail on the head just as well as Peter does and that's really saying something. I'm so glad you got this part, I can no longer imagine Oberyn without it being you, your 'version' of him has even made reading the books better. Seriously, props to you. You've become a lot of people's favorite part of the show.

Oh my gosh, THAT is a good question. I think one of the greatest reads I've ever experienced was Crime & Punishment by Dostoyevsky. I know that sounds highbrow, but to be completely honest it was a page turner for me. When I was a kid, I remember reading this book called Watership Down. That was one of the most grueling, it's by Richard Adams, and I also love One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. And I love Jane Eyre, I love anything by J.D. Salinger, I love reading.

I had an amazing time with Robin Tunney, she is a new friend, and it was a really friendly set. And it was nice because I was sort of, I just signed a new lease on a new apartment in Los angeles and I was able to drive myself to work everyday, which was cool. And Simon is a really great guy, the two of them have a really special chemistry and it was great to see that in person.

Chile is a beautiful country with 3 different physical environments because it's so long, it's kind of the flagpole of South America, so you have incredible vast, otherworldly looking deserts in the North. There are valleys in Northern Chile that look like the surface of the moon. And there is the greatest sky, it is world-renowned for the amount of stars you can see there, it's a place for the greatest astronomers. Then you go to central Chile, and it's like the coast of California, there is great skiing and amazing beaches. Then you go further south and there are beautiful volcanos and lakes. If it wasn't so hard to get to (because all it has is Ocean and mountains) it is one of the most breathtaking landscapes and you get so many sights. It's one of the most beautiful countries on earth, and if you ever get a chance to go, you should take it.

I suppose my worst nightmare would be to be buried alive. One of the worst things out of all of the many many ways of killing a person on Game of Thrones, the one that terrified me the most was trapping a hungry rat and the only way that it could get out was to eat its way through a person's heart. That for me is probably the worst way to go.

Elephant. I'm just completely transfixed when I see one on television or at a zoo. I find them sort of magnificent, and humorous, and intelligent, and gentle, and dangerous, and I just think that they are incredible.

I remember I had this strange instinct that Oberyn Martell sounded like my Dad. I don't know what that says about my Dad. So my Dad had a somewhat thick accent, my family is Chilean as some people know, and when I was very very young coming to the states, Spanish is my first language because that is what we spoke at home. Unfortunately I don't practice it as much as I should, I can always improve my spanish, but my parents spoke perfect English but Spanish-accented English.

That makes sense. Like you said that Oberyn could be described as the greatest badass you've ever seen; based on what you've told us about your parents activism, that seems a pretty apt description for them too.

Well, my parents were liberals, they were very young at the time, I was just born, and they were Allende supporters, and you know, Chile at the time they were under military dictatorship, under Pinochet, and they were involved in the opposition movement against the military regime. Which really meant that they were against crimes against the people, because it was a really dangerous time, and a lot of people who spoke their mind were disappearing and in danger, it was a very intense climate for many years, they tried to help some people and were caught. They actually snuck into the Venezuelan Embassy in Santiago, Chile and claimed asylum after being in hiding for about 6 months after finding out people were looking for them.

I remember seeing Flash Gordon when I was a little kid, and to be in whatever that palace was that seemed to be elevated into the sky, living amongst the clouds, that would be really really cool. I wouldn't put myself in Westeros because it's just a little bit too dangerous. I would like something easy going and tropical. So if you can think of a fantasy world that has a beach and margaritas, really really good weather, write some fantasy fiction around that and I'd gladly move there.

GOOD QUESTION! OOOOH I have so many favorite science fiction films. I would say Alien and Aliens are two of my favorite scifi films. Also Children of Men would be one of my favorite science fiction films. I love the original Solaris and the remake. And even though it wasn't a film, the series Battlestar Galactica was one of my favorite TV shows.

Good afternoon Mr. Pascal! First off, I wanted to say that you have been doing a terrific job this season so far in game of thrones. I've heard that you are a fan of the show as well! As a fan, what has been your favorite thing about being able to work on the show? Also, have you had any memorable moments behind-the-scenes with other cast members?

I've never had an experience like this where I got to be a part of something that i was already aware of as a fan. And the experience of being on-set for the first time was really surreal and a little overwhelming because even if you didn't know anything about GoT, if you showed up to work on it you'd still be so impressed and wonder how this could possibly be a TV show because it feels so epic when you're doing it. To add on top of that the fact that i was already a fan, and was being thrown into the center of such an important storyline and getting to interact with these amazing characters played by these amazing actors, I was pinching myself throughout the entire 4th session. It never really let up, there was never a point of adjustment, I never landed completely. I was kind of in awe of it throughout.

Lena is one of my favorite persons. And she (in life) is so funny and so smart, such a good person, a good friend and a good mother, I think everyone on that set and anyone who comes in contact with her develops an instant crush. Talk about male or female, you're going to get a crush on her easy. And I was just lucky that I got to work with her and hit it off and continue being friends. Everybody was a joy to work with. It's just this huge family and the great thing about the way that David Benioff and Dan Weiss have adapted the character of Oberyn is that they have him interact with even MORE characters, and getting to be in the trial, and at the wedding, I got to meet so many of the actors, and being an actor from the US, I was staying in the hotel that all the other actors were coming in and out of. I got to meet and hang out with so many of the other actors that I didn't have scenes with. There was another new addition to the cast, which is Ellaria Sand played by Indira Varma, and she and I got along really really well which is very important because she is a character who is Oberyn's equal and the love of his life. And she's just as fierce as he is, and that is why they are together, so we got to do a lot of fun stuff together. But I got to love working with so many of them, Peter Dinklage and working with him was a career highlight, I mean, you can refer to what i said earlier about it never ceasing to be a completely surreal and wonderful experience.

I just want to jump in here and say your shared scenes with Peter have been the emotional center of the show in the second half of this season. That's saying a lot, considering how many other important and harrowing things have been happening.

Also, as an Argentine-American it's great to see a neighbor getting the attention his talent deserves.

That is very meaningful for me to hear, and I think that to be given the opportunity of playing a character that is able to bind himself to such a great character like Tyrion, even though Oberyn has his own agenda, there is a kind of kindred spirit to the two of them, and for that to have an impact is so important to me just as a viewer, so to have been able to have contributed to that is a tremendous honor. Thank you, I love Argentina and Buenos Aires is one of my favorite cities in the world.

I think that my first day onset was actually a pretty big scene, this was my scene in Tyrion's cell with Peter Dinklage, and it's a beautifully written scene but it was really important to me to get it right. And I was really nervous. And it turned out not to be a difficult scene to shoot because Peter was so amazing to work with and he's such a generous actor. And our director Alik Sakharov, he was the director of that episode, and he's one of the best directors I've ever worked with, so that and the amazing writing turned it into (to this day) one of the best workdays I've ever had.

And of course, as far as what is upon us in the next episode, The Viper versus the Mountain, was one of the most challenging things I've ever done.

Yeah, holy shit. I'm always baffled when I think about the extra challenges that shooting schedules create for actors. It's like, hey, not only do we need you to step into the skin of a completely different human being, but you're going to have to portray them at different points in their development, out of chronological order. I have a headache just imagining it.

I am in New York right now, and I am in rehearsals for Shakespeare in the Park (Much Ado About Nothing) and I walk home and ride the train like I always have, and the difference being that strangers will sort of look at me and it will take a second to figure out why they are looking at me, and sometimes they will approach me and say "are you the guy on Game of Thrones?" Recently I had an hour break and was walking near Union Square to go to Barnes & Noble, and there was somebody trying to sign people up for something, trying to get them to talk to him on the street, and the guy was trying to get people's attention and he said to me "And YOU sir, look like Oberyn Martell on Game of Thrones!" and I stopped in my tracks for a second and didn't know what to say, and he said "Holy Shit, you ARE Oberyn Martell on Game of Thrones" and then he left me alone. Haha. And let me go to Barnes & Nobel!

There's a bunch of non-shoot related cast photos floating around the internet, for example some beach photos where everyone looks to be having the times of their lives. Is the GoT cast one giant family? Have any funny stories while on set?

The GoT cast is a giant family. And they also have the amazing opportunity to shoot in really cool locations, and so there was, I can't remember, I suppose it was a weekend that the weather in Croatia was really beautiful and we all had the day off, so we all hung out and captured some of it on camera. And that was those photos.

One of the funnier moments that I had offset was making Gwendoline who plays Brienne and the two show runners Dave and Dan pose with me on the steps of a plaza in the old city of Dubrovnik for a fantasy album cover of mine. I haven't shared this photo yet, though! It's just for me! Not to be too much of a tease, but the photo was taken by Nikolai too.

To be really honest, I would go into an episode and lose myself in the story and then it would get to a scene where I would appear, and my initial reaction was like (alongside fascination and excitement) there was also a little frustration in that at first it would kick me out of it a little bit, and I would be like "I'm enjoying this episode! I don't want to have to see myself!" But then I let that go and keep watching and it's fine.

Yo Pedro, now that we are seeing characters such as Doran and other Dornishmen being cast for Season 5, are they modelling the accents of these new characters off the Chilean one you used for the show or will they go with something different?

I don't know what they are going to be doing! They also have Indira as a model for the people of Dorn. I don't know how they will be pursuing it, but I know that they will probably just try to find the right people for the roles.

They decorated my table at the purple wedding with a bowl of berries, and they kept on having to refill it because i was eating them. And the brothel had some nuts and berries, sort of decorated throughout the set, that's why you keep seeing me eating in the scene, like I'm chewing on stuff while I'm talking, is because I kept eating the berries.

I seem to recall a similar story about Robert Downey Jr. on the Iron Man sets. He kept hiding food around the set and pulling it out when he got hungry. Apparently he was really good at hiding the food and search as they might, he always had something else hidden to snack on.

That's me, Natalie, Sophie, and Maisie, and we were at an Entertainment Weekly party together and the 4 of us squeezed into a Photo Booth! To take credit, i was the first person to post the picture on my Instagram (with the approval of the other actresses) and so then I posted it, Sophie loved it and reposted it, and then EVERYBODY saw it. The processing of the image of the Photo Booth is obviously in our favor.

And these kind of questions are always so very hard because I am a fan of the show, and was a fan of the show before I even had an audition for it, and I love so many of the characters. To be a little obvious and in line with all of the fans, I'm in love with Arya. I don't know if I could handle the kind of trauma that her character has to go through, but the fierceness with which she empowers herself sort of reluctantly is pretty amazing, and that would be a very very juicy role. But this is me being forced to pick one out of many others. I like Varys, the way he puppet masters things from the shadows. I don't know if anyone other than Alfie Allen could handle the role that he has and go through what he god through, from being lost to being despicable and victimized. And I'm not even going to touch anything else... I'm just going to stick with being Oberyn.

A dream movie project of mine would be to get cast in something with a bunch of friends, so Lena in there, my friend Sarah Paulsen, and then you know, have it directed by Alfonso Cuaron. And yeah, it would be great to work with a great director like that and friends, that would be my fantasy.

One of my favorite cities in the world was Dubrovnik, Croatia. It is seriously one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, that's my kind of weather, that's my kind of water, I could live there year-round happily. I love Lisbon in Portugal as well. I also love Madrid, and Buenos Aires, as I've said before. But Dubrovnik is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

First, thank you VERY very much. That's always amazing for me to hear. And the production of Game of Thrones actually put me in some pre-training before I went to Europe to start shooting. I was put intro some classes with a master of Wushu, an acrobatic martial art, and they put me with a master, his name is Master Hu, and he has a studio in Los Angeles where he sort of basically showed me the basics and taught me how to fight with a spear and twist my body around and move in ways I never thought possible. And this was a guy who actually did Shaolin movies with Jet Li very early in Jet Li's career, and fought alongside him as his sidekick, so he was the real deal.

Then once I got to Europe and started shooting, there were really intensive fight rehearsals with me and the stunt team that was headed by C.C. Smiff, and other actors, and we did a lot of fight choreography and rehearsals. The Oberyn style of fighting is inspired by Wushu.

I enjoyed it. I think that he gives no explanation and makes no apologies for the way he lives his life, and I think that was very exciting and important to portray, that he has no hangups around the experience of pleasure, and he will take any opportunity to experience something beautiful, and I think he finds that in lovemaking. He doesn't see the sense in limiting oneself of experience and pleasure, and I think that is very cool.

I read the Tyrion chapters in Book 3 after I got the part, and it helped me a lot, and there's such a richness in George R.R. Martin's language and there are things that are described that can only be played, I guess, on screen, so it was very informative to me. And I think now I'm excited because when all is said and done, I can just sort of (and when I need my GOT fix) i can start at the very beginning and read all of the books.

One of my favorite movies is 28 Days Later, and I used to think about this a lot after I watched that movie because I feel like it's such a terrifyingly realistic possible circumstance, that a virus would turn these people into rabid zombies, so I kind of wondered often how i would survive. I remember that I had a dog at the time, and I knew that i would have to keep her alive at all costs. I don't know exactly how well I would do, but I would probably do everything to keep myself and my friends safe. I might not last that long because I would probably sacrifice myself to save a family member or something like that. I'd like to think so anyway. I would say that so far I've been pretty lucky because my mom has good genes, and that's gotten me by, I am capable of watching more hours of television than I am doing exercise in a week, so it would really depend. I actually get out of breath really easily, so I think in a zombie apocalypse I would have to rely a bit more on my brain rather than my body.

I think the most capable rule of Westeros would be Tyrion Lannister. I wouldn't want to put Arya there because it's too dangerous of a place, and I think that Tyrion is very cunning, very very intelligent, smarter than everyone in the room, smarter than everyone in any room that he is IN, but also has an emphasis that is for ultimate rules.

That's awesome. I think that that's the whole point of Oberyn Martell. So I think to have /r/gayforoberyn is definitely in line with what he's about. And it would make him very happy and very busy, even busier than he would normally be.

I got to hang out with George RR Martin. He invited me to a screening of the first episode of Season 4 at the Jean Cocteau cinema in Santa Fe that he bought and renovated, and we had a really really good time. We shared a Red Viper Sangria, they were selling it in the lobby, and he's just a really nice guy.

Sorry for not picking an ACTUAL superhero, but one of my favorite characters that was a superhero to me was Beatrix Kiddo in the Kill Bill movies, played by Uma Thurman in the Kill Bill Movies 1 & 2. For me she is one of the fiercest movie characters of all time.

I have the same problem. I eat out a lot. I unfortunately don't really know how to cook for myself. I try to find good things to eat, but sadly am often on the go, and a microwaveable pizza finds its way into my situation more often than not.

Even though it's associated more with Pixar, I would say Wall-E. And the Incredibles. Those are two of my favorite films of all time. And then as far as Disney, more of the classic animations, I would say my favorite Disney film is Dumbo. I like to cry, what can I say?

I had a lot of different role models. My dad took me to the movies my whole life, he was a big movie buff, and me and my sister would go with him to the movies a few times a week. So I had so many heroes, like all of the major actors. I would have to say one of my favorite actors is probably Gene Hackman, but that's a really hard question to answer because I've had so many heroes that I've admired, filmmakers that i have loved, I remember seeing Steven Soderbergh's first movie when I was really young and then seeing every movie he did after that. I was a very book reading, television and movie watching geek. So it makes it endless in terms of the amount of people that I have admired.

That makes me feel wonderful. I think that that's key to Oberyn. That he is the kind of person that is attractive and sort of breaks boundaries. He doesn't play by the rules, so the fact that anyone would be attracted to him, no matter what their sexual orientation is, is very in line with the kind of character that he is. So I think that's great.

I unfortunately am not a stress-free person. I am so happy that Oberyn is coming across that way. I would love to be able to move through life with the ease with which he does. But that is not the case in my reality. I guess I relax with any opportunity to jump in the water, that is a good one, and of course i also watch a lot of TV. But I am not as cool and collected as Oberyn, unfortunately.

Well, let's see. I would certainly say that I'm a lot more cautious than Oberyn Martell is. But in fantasy, as in my own fantasies, I think he would encompass the kind of person that I would like to be in my dream life. And I find him to be a very sexy person for a lot of different reasons. There's so much about him and the richness of his character, because he is very dangerous, very sensual, but he's also very intelligent, and a loyal person full of integrity and his loyalties go very very deep. And his hatred runs from a very very emotional place. It's not just because he has beef with the world out of just being an angry guy, it's very specifically related to a tragedy in his life. And I think the hatred's deepness is so profound that i find that really attractive.